IT Development Operations Lead
Are you an experienced DevOps Lead?
Would you like the opportunity to shape and build something from the ground up and play a vital role in trying to improve the health of populations around the world?
As DevOps Lead at Protas, you will ensure that our development, deployment, and operational processes for our Unified Clinical Trials Management Platform are safe, robust, repeatable, and trusted internally as well as by our partners, the NHS and trial participants.
You will provide the technical leadership for establishing and automating the development, deployment, and operational processes for our Unified Clinical Trials Management Platform (UCTMP) and you will be responsible for putting in place our DevOps approach, processes, and tools from the get-go, setting the direction, designing in best practice, and working with development and quality assurance teams to make it real.
This is a great opportunity to put your mark on the role and to establish our DevOps capability for the development of the platform the right way from the start.
The fully cloud-based platform will be an integral part of our work, You’ll be responsible for making sure that it is enabled by robust, repeatable and automated processes from the outset with lean, fit for purpose, documentation and processes that meet regulatory requirements, helping to have a tangible effect on the success of our clinical trials and ultimately ensure we achieve our vision of reducing the barriers in the development of better treatments for common diseases and health outcomes for the wider public.
As a small start-up that is rapidly growing you will be empowered to make decisions quickly and see them to fruition speedily.
About Protas
Protas is an independent not-for-profit organisation, designing and delivering large, global randomized clinical trials of treatments for common and other life-threatening diseases. Protas is led by the epidemiologist and physician, Professor Sir Martin Landray, who has over 20 years’ experience of leading large, randomized clinical trials as part of a team at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Population Health. Most recently, he has been co-leading the landmark RECOVERY clinical trial into treatments for COVID-19 which identified that treatment with the inexpensive steroid drug dexamethasone, improved the chances of survival for the most severe cases. It’s an incredibly rewarding place to work where you’ll be surrounded by supportive colleagues who are experts in their own field of excellence. It’s an exciting time to start with us.
About You
You will have broad software quality assurance experience and experience in software verification and validation within healthcare or pharma. Ideally you will have worked with development teams and suppliers working to DevOps and agile practices, as well as have a good understanding of software development and delivery processes. You will have experience in maintaining a software quality management system and validation documentation meeting regulatory requirements in an agile environment. You’ll also have experience working with regulators and / or auditors demonstrating that development and validation approaches and systems meet regulatory requirements. You’re someone who can plan and execute strategy and yet never lose sight of the operational side or of the importance of the details.
Finally, you will have experience in working with third-party geographically distributed teams. Experience validating solutions used in the context of Clinical Trials is desirable.
Protas is committed to becoming a diverse and inclusive organisation.
We are open to discussions on flexible working arrangements.
We strongly encourage applications from people from all backgrounds. For disabled applicants, please contact us to let us know of any adjustments we can make to support you during the recruitment process.
We are currently a remote working organisation but plan to move to hybrid working in the future. We welcome applications from locations across the UK (applicants must have the right to work in the UK).
If you have any additional questions, please contact [email protected]
Salary: circa £65,000 per annum
To apply
Please email your CV to [email protected]
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Please note this role closes on: 12th June 2022